Title Iranian cosmopolitanism : a cinematic history / Golbarg Rekabtalaei

Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 303 pages) : illustrations Series The global Middle East ; 3 Global Middle East (Cambridge, England) Contents Notes on Transliteration, Citation, Translation and Dates; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Cinematic Imaginaries and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Twentieth Century; 1.1. Cinematic Heterotopia in Early-Twentieth-Century Tehran; 1.2. Francotopic City: Early Cinema Culture and Urbanisation; 1.3. Early Cinema and National Consciousness in Iran; 1.4. Competing Reactions to Early Cinema; 2. Cinematic Education, Cinematic Sovereignty: The Creation of a Cosmo-National Cinema 2.1. Screen Education during the Reign of Reza Pahlavi; 2.2. Regulating Cinema Programs and Cinema Spaces; 2.3. Cosmo-National Cinema: The Emergence of a Persian-Language Film Industry; 3. Industrial Professionalisation: The Emergence of a "National" Commercial Cinema; 3.1. Cinema and Propaganda in Post-War Iran; 3.2. Post-World War II Image Culture and Social Typecasts; 3.3. Cinema and Westoxication: Reactions to Cinema in a Time of Political Chaos; 3.4. Professionalisation and the Emergence of a ''National'' Commercial Film Industry; 3.5. The Shaping of a Cinematic Visionary 3.6. The Question of Taxes on National Films; 4. ''Film-Farsi'': Everyday Constituencies of a Cosmopolitan Popular Cinema; 4.1. The First Stones: The First Post-World War II Fiction Films and Their Reception; 4.2. ''Film-Farsi'' or ''Faux'' Persian-Language Films; 4.3. ''Film-Farsi'': Negotiating Modernity and Modernisation; 4.3.1 Historical films; 4.3.2. Rural-Urban Migration Films; 4.3.3. ''Social-Urban'' films; 4.4. The Global in Local Persian-Language Films; 4.5. Commercial Co-Productions; 5. Cinematic Revolution: Cosmopolitan Alter-Cinema of Pre-Revolutionary Iran 5.1. The 1960s: Cinema or the ''Locus of Corruption'' (kānūn-i fisād); 5.2. On a Path toward Cinematic Redemption; 5.3. Alter-Cinema: The Horizon of an Alternative Cinematic Imagination; 5.4. The Branching of the Alternative Cinema: Azad Cinema; 5.5. Film Festivals and the Staging of an Alternative Vernacular-Cosmopolitan Cinema; 5.6. Revolution Onscreen: A Cinematic Revolution before the Political Revolution; Conclusion; Index Summary From popular and 'New Wave' pre-revolutionary films of Fereydoon Goleh and Abbas Kiarostami to post-revolutionary films of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the Iranian cinema has produced a range of films and directors that have garnered international fame and earned a global following. Golbarg Rekabtalaei takes a unique look at Iranian cosmopolitanism and how it transformed in the Iranian imagination through the cinematic lens. By examining the development of Iranian cinema from the early twentieth century to the revolution, Rekabtalaei locates discussions of modernity in Iranian cinema as rooted within local experiences, rather than being primarily concerned with Western ideals or industrialisation. Her research further illustrates how the ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity of Iran's citizenry shaped a heterogeneous culture and a cosmopolitan cinema that was part and parcel of Iran's experience of modernity. In turn, this cosmopolitanism fed into an assertion of sovereignty and national identity in a modernising Iran in the decades leading up to the revolution Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Central, viewed on January 30, 2019) Subject Cosmopolitanism in motion pictures. Motion pictures -- Iran -- History -- 20th century Motion picture industry -- Iran -- History -- 20th century Cosmopolitanism in motion pictures Motion picture industry Motion pictures Iran Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108290289 1108290280 1108407463 9781108407465 1108307981 9781108307987

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